Tuesday, July 15, 2014

An all NPR edition, today. You can read the article and/or listen. I like listening because there are often items left out of the print version.

Stress-Busting Foods Which foods increase your stress? Which reduce it? It’s the latter that I’m interested in. I know I eat the wrong foods when stressed.

This is Your Stressed-Out Brain on Scarcity It’s not good news to be stressed, but it is valuable to realize how much attention it consumes. Armed with that knowledge, we can make changes in ourselves and in our perceptions of others.

The 3 Scariest Words a Boy Can Hear Joe Ehrmann, a 75 professional football player, discusses the pitfalls of the words “be a man.” Excellent stuff, and an article I’ll be bookmarking for use in my own coaching.

In fact, I watched this yesterday. I found it useful. What simplistic stories are you telling yourself?

Be suspicious of stories (15 min) “Like all of us, economist Tyler Cowen loves a good story. But in this intriguing talk, he asks us to step away from thinking of our lives — and our messy, complicated irrational world — in terms of a simple narrative.”

Smelling Farts is Healthy It’s a real study, with real implications, especially for the world of stand up comedy. And for preventing or reversing mitochondrial damage. I’m not sure which is more important.

Stella Young: I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much ‘Stella Young is a comedian and journalist who happens to go about her day in a wheelchair — a fact that doesn’t, she’d like to make clear, automatically turn her into a noble inspiration to all humanity. In this very funny talk, Young breaks down society's habit of turning disabled people into “inspiration porn.”’